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Google’s Top Search Trends Of 2014 Revealed

Whatever it is, it’s been registered forever. Yes, there’s no taking back ‘How to boil an egg', and in its small way it might just have influenced the top search trends of the last 12 months.

And now the tech titans have released lists of the most popular trending topics. The biggest topic was Robin Williams’s death in August, with the sad news seemingly sending keyboards ablaze as fans and well-wishers worldwide attempted to find out more information about the beloved actor's passing.

Other big stories to make the ‘trending searches’ list included Ebola, Malaysia Airlines, Flappy Bird, ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and ISIS; essentially giving us a snapshot at 2014 with a couple of sentences.

Unsurprisingly, Disney’s toddler-baiting Frozen topped the movie list, trailed by Interstellar and Divergent (though, interestingly, David Fincher’s suitably more grown-up Gone Girl was the most trending trailer), while Game Of Thrones dominated the TV searches and our old pal J-law came out top of both trending actress and people (not including deaths).

Visit Google’s own special microsite to break down each trending topic for further trend analysis: click on the World Cup, for example, and you can see how James Rodriguez was the tournament’s top trending player, that 2.2 billion searches were documented, and a lovely stat about psychic sea creature Paul The Octopus.